Binding-plate for brick walls



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U. BISGI-IOPF.

BINDING PLAT; POR BRICK WALLS. No. 425,854. Patented'Apr. 15, 1890.

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CARL BISCI-IOFF, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

BINDING-PLATE FOR BRICK WALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,854, dated Apri1 15, 1890.

Application filed August 21, 1889. Kierial No. 321,512. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL BISOHOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Binding-Plates for Walls of Buildings; and I do hereby dethe outer face of the wall in which it is placed and provided on its inner face with a means for securing the same to the rafters of a building, together with certain other details of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of my improved binding-plate constructed for a brick wall. Fig. 2 is an edge View showing the manner of attaching the sameto the rafters of a building. Fig. 3 is a plan. View of the same. Fig. I is a rear face View of the plate. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one end of an ordinary wooden rafter, showing stirrups attached thereto. Fig. 6 is a face view of a plate such as used at the intersection of a stone andbrick Wall.

To put my invention into practice, I form a metal casting or plate a, the external surface of which is made to represent stone or brick work and having projections b of the same size as the brick in the wall. These projections 12 fit into the wall and present the same appearance as the bricks. At the rear of this plate a is formed a series of outwardly-projecting lugs c, which receive two metallic straps d, firmly bolted to the end of the floor-rafters 6. Several ribs f are formed on the rear face of the plate to strengthen the same, and at the lower edge of the plate a are two outwardly-projecting feet 9, which serve to stand the same in position while the bricks are being built around the plate. These plates a are attached to each end of the rafters e by means of the lugs c, the straps d, and small bolts h, and serve to bind the two walls 011 which the rafter e rests, and at the same time does not mar the beauty of the external surface of the walls.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p The herein-described binding-plates a, having a representation of brick or stone work formed on its outside face and projecting portions 1) to neatly fit between and into the several courses of brick or stone, the lugs 0, formed at the rear of the plate as a means of attaching the same to rafters, and the feet g, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto afiix my signature this 29th day of June, A. D, 1889.

CARL mscnorr. [n s] In presence of- FRANK NV. SMITH,

M. E. HARRISON. 

